i didn't see really a lot of information coming out of the committee that vice president biden was sitting on, and so i just wanted to reach out to my own citizens in my county and let them know what my position was. and while i was working on doing that i thought well, you know, he's a chairman of the committee, and i didn't really see a lot of western sheriffs out being asked on what we thought, and specifically, you know, pacific northwest, we're from here, and so i decided i'd send him a letter and just let him know what my position was here in lynn county oregon and try to be as respectful as possible and still get my point made, and didn't really expect the attention that it got. i figured i might get some local attention. i tried to reach out through our local newspaper, and then we put it on our -- the copy of the letter that i wrote on our sheriff's office facebook pag page -- martha: and then it's like wildfire. >> yeah. martha: what is your understanding of your jurisdiction, and sort of what you are allowed to do under the law, and what you are not beholding to in terms of thes